It is the battles that are totally forest that annoy me. Realism (or lack there-of) aside, it isn't fun. I can't see anything from any height. The smallest trees are about 5 times the height of my men and the tallest must be over 50metres high. It is insane, impossible to direct the battle and no commander would choose to fight in such terrain.

It is so bad that when i play barbarian factions I do my best to fight away from their ideal forest area's because of the interface stupidity. I would be much happier dealing with trees that were no more than 2 or 3 times my soldiers height and far, far more sparse. If you want to make it realistic then surely you can use some modifiers to give a very large negative fighting bonus to simulate denser woods while allowing the Sweboz, etc to actually play to their strengths and fight effectively in forest maps.